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Jul 26, 2016
Sony has filed a patent for contact lenses that record and store videos with the blink of an eye
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, sex
If you’ve seen the dystopian nightmare fuel that is BBC’s Black Mirror, you might be getting the “No no nos” about Sony’s latest patent application — ‘smart’ contact lenses with a built-in camera that can record, play, and even store videos right before your eyes.
With Google and Samsung having already filed patents for contact lenses with tiny, built-in cameras, these things seem inevitable, and they have the potential to change everything about the way we interact with each other… for better or worse.
So yep, that means in the future we could all be playing back recordings of old conversations to our friends and family to win an argument, or, you know, watching a ‘greatest hits’ compilation while having sex with our significant other. But we have more faith in the good of mankind than that, right?
Jul 26, 2016
Dimensional Reduction: The Key To Physics’ Greatest Mystery?
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: physics
Perhaps looking at our Universe as three dimensions of space is too restrictive. What if we were more — and less — all at once?
Jul 26, 2016
Olympians Look for an Edge with Brain Stimulation — By Mike Orcutt | MIT Technology Review
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: science
“Despite the lack of peer-reviewed evidence, startup Halo Neuroscience says its brain-zapping headphones have helped athletes get more from their training.”
Jul 26, 2016
Coinbase is adding support for Ethereal — By Fitz Tepper | TechCrunch
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies
Jul 26, 2016
Dolly the sheep’s siblings ‘healthy’
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in category: biotech/medical
But the new study, which tracked four sheep cloned from the same ewe as Dolly, found they had aged normally.
Some of the animals did show mild — and in one case moderate — signs of osteoarthritis. But the researchers say that it was not sufficiently severe that any of the animals required treatment.
Dolly the sheep’s “siblings” are generally healthy, a study has shown, providing hope that cloning can yield animals free from degenerative illness.
Jul 26, 2016
NASA’s Weird Asteroid Redirect Mission Is Actually Making Progress
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: space
Other NASA officials have said they have plans to speak with Congressional staffers about ARM and assuage concerns the agency is wasting valuable time and resources on something impractical.
A successful ARM mission would be the craziest thing NASA has ever done, but would also hit on pretty much every big agency objective. ARM would basically kill a dozen space birds with one space rock.
Photos via Screenshot from NASA webcast., NASA.
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Jul 26, 2016
Explorers spot mysterious purple orb on ocean floor
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: futurism
It’s blobby. It’s bright purple. It lives under the water. But what is it? Scientists aren’t exactly sure just yet.
In 15 years the human specie is going to develop super human level machine intelligence.
-What it means to be Super-Human?
–The country with Artificial Intelligence will be the country on top.
Jul 26, 2016
Engineer finds a huge physics discovery in da Vinci’s ‘irrelevant scribbles’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: physics
Until now, art historians dismissed some doodles in da Vinci’s notebooks as “irrelevant.”
But a new study from Ian Hutchings, a professor at the University of Cambridge, showed that one page of these scribbles from 1493 actually contained something groundbreaking: The first written records demonstrating the laws of friction.
Although it has been common knowledge that da Vinci conducted the first systematic study of friction (which underpins the modern science of tribology, or the study of friction, lubrication, and wear), we didn’t know how and when he came up with these ideas.
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